Early Machines
The first electronic computer in history (1940s) that took up an entire room and weighed tons.
ENIAC
A first-generation glass electronic component that consumed a lot of energy and burned out easily.
thermionic valve
A U.S. military network created during the Cold War that served as the direct predecessor to the Internet.
ARPANET
A tiny integrated electronic component that defines the fourth generation of computers and is still in use today.
Microprocessor
The century in which the microprocessor was invented and the era of personal computers began
20th century
A system using punched cardboard used before digital disks to store and read data.
Punch cards
An invention that replaced vacuum tubes in the second generation, reducing the size of devices.
The transistor
Acronym coined by Tim Berners-Lee to define the global computer network that allows users to navigate via links.
WWW (World Wide Web)
The technology company that standardized commercial personal computers (PCs) in the 1980s alongside the MS-DOS system.
IBM
The country where the initial infrastructure of the ARPANET was funded, created, and connected
The United States
A 19th-century scientist and mathematician considered the father of computing for designing the Analytical Engine.
Charles Babbage
A tiny silicon chip that integrates thousands of transistors, key to the third generation.
The microchip
The decade in which the Internet opened up to the general public and the first commercial web browsers appeared.
The 1990s
Current technology for storing files and running applications directly on internet servers without using a local hard drive.
Cloud computing
Name of the first mass-market social network of Web 2.0 (launched in 2003) before Facebook's global dominance.
MySpace
In what year was the ENIAC, the first electronic computer in history, completed?
1945
A standard markup language created to structure and display the first plain-text pages on the Web 1.0
HTML
The first popular graphical web browser in history (1993) that allowed images to be displayed alongside text on Web 1.0.
Mosaic
A technology known as the Semantic Web, where data is interconnected in an intelligent and decentralized manner.
Web 3.0
The U.S. government agency that designed and funded the ARPANET.
ARPA
In what year did IBM introduce its first personal computer (IBM PC), thereby standardizing the market?
1981
A hypertext transfer protocol that defines how messages and pages are sent and received between the browser and the server.
HTTP
An internet connection service marketed in the 1990s that used analog telephone lines and emitted a high-pitched sound when connecting.
Dial-up
A decentralized and secure accounting technology that serves as the foundation for the infrastructure, smart contracts, and privacy of Web 3.0.
Blockchain
A platform launched in 2005 that revolutionized Web 2.0 by enabling the mass uploading and sharing of videos for the first time.
YouTube